The History of North and South America: From Its Discovery to the Death of General Washington, Volumes 1-2Jacob Johnson, 1806 - America |
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... danger of the course which the Portuguese were pursuing , led Columbus to consider , whether a shorter and more direct passage to the East Indies might not be found out . After revolving long , and attentively , every circumstance ...
... danger of the course which the Portuguese were pursuing , led Columbus to consider , whether a shorter and more direct passage to the East Indies might not be found out . After revolving long , and attentively , every circumstance ...
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... dangerous . Upon discovering this dishonourable action , he instant- ly quitted the kingdom , and landed in Spain , towards the close of the year 1484 , when he determined to propose it in person to Ferdinand and Isabella , who at that ...
... dangerous . Upon discovering this dishonourable action , he instant- ly quitted the kingdom , and landed in Spain , towards the close of the year 1484 , when he determined to propose it in person to Ferdinand and Isabella , who at that ...
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... dangers to which , in all probability , he would be exposed . His eagerness to accomplish his great design made him overlook every danger and difficulty . He pushed forward the preparations with such ardour , and was so well seconded by ...
... dangers to which , in all probability , he would be exposed . His eagerness to accomplish his great design made him overlook every danger and difficulty . He pushed forward the preparations with such ardour , and was so well seconded by ...
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... danger . The Spanish sailors accustomed only to coasting voyages in the Mediterranean ; the knowledge of Columbus , the fruit of thirty years experience , improved by the inventive skill of the Portuguese , appeared immense . When they ...
... danger . The Spanish sailors accustomed only to coasting voyages in the Mediterranean ; the knowledge of Columbus , the fruit of thirty years experience , improved by the inventive skill of the Portuguese , appeared immense . When they ...
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... dangerous rocks , or a large tract of land , which had sunk in that place , Columbus persuaded them that , instead of alarming , it ought rather to encourage them , to consi- der it as a sign of approaching land . At the same time a ...
... dangerous rocks , or a large tract of land , which had sunk in that place , Columbus persuaded them that , instead of alarming , it ought rather to encourage them , to consi- der it as a sign of approaching land . At the same time a ...
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Page 156 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 156 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government destroying, afterwards, the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 165 - Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free Government — the ever favorite object of my heart — and the...
Page 154 - Union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the. patriotism of those, who, in any quarter, may endeavour to weaken its bands.
Page 159 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 156 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Page 151 - ... strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Page 165 - I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence ; and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service, with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.
Page 156 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small, but artful and enterprising minority of the community...